英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-10 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—22

 -Hmm, that's pretty lovely.He puts that down to his honey bees' rather unusual habitat.

-We're on the roof of Tate Britain and here these are some of the bees that I look after for the Tate.

-I have to say and congratulate. You're having really very, very polite and friendly bees. I mean here we are standing¹ from the hives, and they are just sort of floating around. I've never been able to do this.

-Really?

-Does anybody else do these?

-Oh, good, they are particularly polite, but a little bit different when you go in them, and they love this aspect. It's lovely and light and sunny, and there's a lot of good foraging² in this area here.

-Is city really a good place to keep bees?

-'cos many people think well. There're just steel and glass and concrete and roads and traffic in the city, which put bees off. What do they gonna feed on?

-Well, if you look at here, there are chestnuts³ here and they will start on those early in the year. And then bees are all heading this way at the moment and there's a lot of lime trees over that way. And there's less in pesticides⁴ and there's abundance of pollen⁵ and nectar. There's real meadowy, I suppose, as well, with all the different parks and avenues and people's gardens as well, so they're probably doing quite well.

Evidence from all over the world are showing that urban environments are bucking⁶ the trend, when they come to the declining bees. In the U.K., for instance, honey bees produce more in M* than they do in the surrounding areas. And hives in Paris yield roughly twice as much honey as colonies in the French countryside. For now, the reseach seems to suggest that it is the very diet the city bees are getting that may be keeping their numbers up. And evidence of how different habitats affect honey is very clear.

-So we've got whooping⁷ honey here from E1, and this is very toffee-like honey. I love that. You put that down, and you'll love that.

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

2 foraging   

v.搜寻（食物），尤指动物觅（食）( forage的现在分词 )；（尤指用手）搜寻（东西）

参考例句：

• They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps. 他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The campers went foraging for wood to make a fire. 露营者去搜寻柴木点火。 来自辞典例句

3 chestnuts   

n.栗子( chestnut的名词复数 )；栗色；栗树；栗色马

参考例句：

• A man in the street was selling bags of hot chestnuts. 街上有个男人在卖一包包热栗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Talk of chestnuts loosened the tongue of this inarticulate young man. 因为栗子，正苦无话可说的年青人，得到同情他的人了。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说

4 pesticides   

n.杀虫剂( pesticide的名词复数 )；除害药物

参考例句：

• vegetables grown without the use of pesticides 未用杀虫剂种植的蔬菜
• There is a lot of concern over the amount of herbicides and pesticides used in farming. 人们对农业上灭草剂和杀虫剂的用量非常担忧。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 pollen   

n.[植]花粉

参考例句：

• Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
• He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。

6 bucking   

v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的现在分词 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

参考例句：

• a bucking bronco in the rodeo 牛仔竞技表演中一匹弓背跳跃的野马
• That means we'll be bucking grain bags, bustin's gut. 那就是说咱们要背这一袋袋的谷子，得把五脏都累坏。 来自辞典例句

7 whooping   

发嗬嗬声的，发咳声的

参考例句：

• Whooping cough is very prevalent just now. 百日咳正在广泛流行。
• Have you had your child vaccinated against whooping cough? 你给你的孩子打过百日咳疫苗了吗？